Wooooah!!!Originally Posted by Sir C
Who mentioned invasion?? These people are our friends, Sir C. Friends and partners. Let us work with them and build a secure and prosperous Asia. Europe is done, leave the rubble to the Germans.
I shall take up residence in Penang. I assume you will fancy Singapore?
Friends? Don't be ridiculous. They hate us and our sour milk smell and will never be our friends.
I'd rather live in Essex than Singapore. Singapore? Is there a more soulless place full of soulless people than Singapore?
Bangkok for me. A little place on the Chao Praya down at Silom or Saphan Taksin, I think
We can probably do without your sort anyway. Plenty of good men will fancy finding their fortune in the East.
I don't think I'd be able to bear the heat in Singapore. Or the crowds.
Pfff. Call yourself an Englishman? Sir Stanford Raffles never removed his jacket or loosened his cravat.
I shall wear tweeds.
It's true. I think I'd be dreaming fondly of a cold, wet London day in February before a week was out.
My word. I find it glorious, utterly glorious.
You've got too many Irish genes
Nor went by the name Stanford.
Sir Thomas, if you don't mind. And Stamford, not Stanford.
Well, join me in Penang Hill then. Perfectly secure from the locals with a delightful, cooling breeze.
Lazy evenings in the hlll-top garden overseeing Georgetown and the ships coasting their way to Singapore, bound further east and beyond. We shall toast Francis Light and his ilk before dining at the E&O.
Are you hitting on me?
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